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DESPITE TURNING 100 years old this coming June 27, Hazel Devino still lives on her own, quilts, and cooks her own food.
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MIDDLEBURY &ndash;&ndash; Hazel Devino was born the year Fenway Park was built &mdash; 1912. It seems she was destined to be a big Red Sox fan.</p>
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&ldquo;I love it when the Yankees get beat,&rdquo; she said in an interview last Friday.</p>
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&nbsp;Devino watched the ballpark&rsquo;s 100th anniversary ceremony on TV and enjoys watching the games.</p>
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&ldquo;I watched that celebration a couple weeks ago,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;Oh, it was something, wasn&rsquo;t it?&rdquo;</p>
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RHIANNA CARR OF Orwell recently won the Red Sox Kids Nation community service essay competition. Carr was selected among 900 other essayists who entered this competition.
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ORWELL &ndash;&ndash; When Rhianna Carr, 12, learned that she won a Boston Red Sox Kid Nation community service contest, she couldn&rsquo;t believe it.</p>
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&ldquo;I was so happy I started crying and I was just jumping,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;I almost passed out when I found out, I was so happy.&rdquo;</p>
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Carr, an Orwell resident and big Sox fan, entered a contest run by Kids Nation, the Red Sox youth fan group.</p>
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MOUNT ABRAHAM UNION High School a cappella singer Lane Russell, center, is serenaded in a school hallway by fellow singers, including Tyler Jewett, left, and Quinn Davis on Valentine’s Day. Student singers spent the day serenading students, teachers and staff as part of a school tradition that began in 1999.
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BRISTOL &mdash; Every Valentine&rsquo;s Day since 1999, the halls of Mount Abraham Union Middle and High School have resonated with love songs. The Mount Abe a cappella singing group has turned the day of love into a playful tradition of surprising, embarrassing and tickling their fellow students with tunes from the heart.</p>
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AFTER ORWELL MUSICIAN Michael B. King’s mother passed away and his band of 18 years broke up, he became inspired to write new songs about mothers and their children </div>
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ORWELL &mdash; Michael B. King&rsquo;s music ranges from blues to rock to reggae, but these days it&rsquo;s taken on a different theme: Many of his new songs are about mothers and their children.</p>
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The 55-year-old Orwell resident spread his own mother&rsquo;s ashes this past summer, around the same time that his band, The Jesters, broke up after an 18-year run. Both milestones made him step back and think about his next project.</p>
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&ldquo;I knew I had to replace my music with something,&rdquo; he said.</p>
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LIFELONG CORNWALL RESIDENT Frances Boardman, seen here in 2008 with her husband Charles, is celebrating her 100th birthday on Monday, Nov. 14. </div>
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MIDDLEBURY &mdash; Frances Boardman was in charge of baking the cake for just about every one of her family members&rsquo; birthdays until a fall &mdash; ironically, in the kitchen &mdash; forced her to retire her pots and pans around two years ago.</p>
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Well, Boardman will be celebrating her own birthday on Monday, Nov. 14, and someone else is in charge of the cake.</p>
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And they&rsquo;d better bring a lot of candles.</p>
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THE TEN ADDISON County women and two New Hampshire women pictured above ran a combined 200 miles in just under 29 hours on June 18 as part of the Green Mountain Relay Race. The women are, from left: Nicole Wilkerson, Andrea Solomon, Shauna Lee, Kera Hurlburt, Molly Costanza Robinson, Amey Ryan, Amy Roberts (front), Diane Munroe, Lauri Richer, Leigh Bears, Laura Turner, and Jenny Carter-Nixon with her daughter Amelia. </div>
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VERMONT &mdash; Running 200 miles alone is a feat that only a select number of ultra-endurance athletes can accomplish. As a group of Addison County women found out on June 18, tackling the distance as a team still offers a significant challenge, but also leads to a fun, exciting and rewarding weekend &mdash; especially when the course runs right through the heart of Vermont.</p>
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PETER GARANG DENG will appear at 51 Main in Middlebury this Wednesday to talk about his life as an orphaned refugee in Sudan and how he created a life for himself in Vermont. </div>
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MIDDLEBURY &mdash; Born in one of the world&#39;s poorest countries, Peter Garang Deng, 25, was an orphan by the time he was 5 years old. To make matters worse, his native land, Sudan, was consumed by civil war and the family who took him in beat and starved him, he said.</p>
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But the Burlington resident managed to flee his country, get an education and come to Vermont to start a new life.</p>
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